Tag: C++
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Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again
Developers looking to continue working in the C and C++ programming languages amid the global push to promote memory-safe programming now have another option that doesn’t involve learning Rust. Filip Pizlo, senior director of language engineering at Epic Games, has created his own memory-safe flavor of C and – because why not? – named it…
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CISA to Re-do C/C++ Projects with Rust
So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies. The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has analyzed 172 critical open source projects and found that more than half contain code written in languages like C and C++ that are not naturally memory safe. What’s more, projects written…
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Meta Releases Open Source React Compiler
The React Compiler makes it possible to optimize code for performance. Meta has been using the compiler for more than a year. Meta released an open source compiler for React on Wednesday at the React Conference, which was held in Las Vegas and live-streamed. Joe Savona, a member of the React team at Meta and…
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Open Container Initiative for FreeBSD
Youtube Video (15mins)Lightning Talk: OCI (Open Container Initiative of Linux Foundation) Containers for FreeBSD – Doug Rabson, FreeBSD Project This would be a lightning talk about Doug’s work over the last 1-2 years porting ‘Podman‘, ‘Buildah‘ and related systems to FreeBSD incuding some of the challenges along the way and future plans. Doug, a long-time…